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Swimlane Diagram Software

Create swimlanes, cross-functional flowcharts, deployment flowcharts, and other process design diagrams

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The Easy Choice for Online Swimlane Diagrams

Easy to Use

Click simple commands and SmartDraw builds your swimlane diagram for you. Add or remove a box, and SmartDraw realigns and arranges all the elements so that everything looks great. You can easily add either horizontal or vertical swimlanes and switch between them on the fly. Add or delete swimlanes as needed. The swimlanes automatically expand to make room for shapes as you add them. No manual drawing required.

Easy to Work With Other Apps

SmartDraw is easy to work with no matter what other apps you use. You can add swimlane flowcharts to:

Microsoft Office^®
- Word^®
- PowerPoint^®
- Excel^®
Microsoft Teams^®
Google Workspace^™
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
Atlassian^™ apps
- Confluence
- Jira

Easy to Save to Your Existing Storage Solution

SmartDraw works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save your swimlane diagram directly to:

SharePoint^®
OneDrive^®
Google Drive^™
DropBox^®
Box^®

There is no need to create a parallel set of common folders and permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into your existing set up.

Easy to Share

Share your swimlane diagram with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link. You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image formats like PNG or SVG.

Easy to Get Help

Have a question? Chat or email us. SmartDraw support is in-house and free!

Easy to Collaborate

SmartDraw makes it easy to work with cross-functional teams to document processes and responsibilities. You can save your swimlane diagram to a shared folder or send anyone a link. Your team can easily share comments and feedback.

SmartDraw also works where you already communicate with you team. You can collaborate on flowcharts in Microsoft Teams^®, Slack or Confluence.

Drawing Swimlanes with SmartDraw

SmartDraw is the easiest way to create swim lane diagrams and cross-functional flowcharts of any kind.

What makes it so fast and easy? SmartDraw does much of the drawing for you. Start with a swimlane flowchart template, select from an extensive library of symbols, and quickly build your diagram with ease.

You can quickly add vertical or horizontal swimlanes with a click of a button. By default, you'll start with 4 lanes, but you can easily add or remove lanes as needed.

Depending on the style of swimlanes selected, the lanes will automatically expand to make room for your growing chart. Vertical swimlanes will expand vertically downward, while horizontal swimlanes will expand to the right.

You can easily change column headers and add styling to finish your swimlane diagram.

Swimlane Diagram Templates

Select any of these templates below to open SmartDraw in your browser and edit the template right now.

Software Development Swim Lane Diagram

Human Resources Swim Lane Flowchart

Deployment Flowchart

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Swimlane Diagram Software

Create swimlanes, cross-functional flowcharts, deployment flowcharts, and other process design diagrams

The Easy Choice for Online Swimlane Diagrams

Easy to Use

Easy to Work With Other Apps

Easy to Save to Your Existing Storage Solution

Easy to Share

Easy to Get Help

Easy to Collaborate

Drawing Swimlanes with SmartDraw

Swimlane Diagram Templates

SmartDraw is Used by Over 85% of the Fortune 500

Try SmartDraw's Swimlane Diagram Software

Diagramming
Build diagrams of all kinds from flowcharts to floor plans with intuitive tools and templates.

Whiteboarding
Collaborate with your team on a seamless workspace no matter where they are.

Data
Generate diagrams from data and add data to shapes to enhance your existing visuals.

Enterprise Friendly
Easy to administer and license your entire organization.

Security
See how we keep your data safe.

Apps & Integrations
Connect to all the tools you use from Microsoft, Google Workspace, Atlassian, and more.

Product Management
Roadmap features, brainstorm, and report on development, so your team can ship features that users love.

Software Engineering
Design and maintain complex systems collaboratively.

Information Technology
Visualize system architecture, document processes, and communicate internal policies.

Sales
Close bigger deals with reproducible processes that lead to successful onboarding and training.

Getting Started
Learn to make visuals, familiarize yourself with the UI, choosing templates, managing documents, and more.

Templates
Get inspired by browsing examples and templates available in SmartDraw.

Diagrams
Learn about all the types of diagrams you can create with SmartDraw.

Whiteboard
Learn how to combine free-form brainstorming with diagram blueprints all while collaborating with your team.

Data Visualizers
Learn how to generate visuals like org charts and class diagrams from data.

Support
Search through SmartDraw's knowledge base, view frequently asked questions, or contact our support team.

Development Platform
Browse built-in data visualizers and see how you can build your own custom visualization.

Open API
The SmartDraw API allows you to skip the drawing process and generate diagrams from data automatically.

Shape Data
Add data to shapes, import data, export manifests, and create data rules to change dashboards that update.

Enterprise License
As low as $5 per user per month for your entire organization.

Team License
Get powerful administrative features for your team.

Security
See how we keep your data safe.

Apps & Integrations
Connect to all the tools you use.